club website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n“We have built an impressive squad, and with further additions made this winter, the competition for places is greater than ever. I know the group feels we can push very hard for silverware this season.”<\/p>\n
Warwickshire finished fifth in Division One of the Championship last summer and reached the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast, but missed out on the knockout stage of the One-Day Cup after finishing fourth in their group.<\/p>\n
Head coach Ian Westwood said: “Barney is a natural successor, and we are delighted he’s accepted the offer to become our next captain. <\/p>\n
“He is not the loudest in the dressing room, but has the enviable quality of demanding respect through the way he conducts himself and offers his opinions in the right way.”<\/p>\n
Davies said he had given up the captaincy to ensure he will be “firing on all cylinders” with the bat and wicketkeeping gloves this summer.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t be passing the Bears on to a better person in Ed. When asking him to be my vice-captain two years ago, it was clear to me that one day he was going to be a great captain, and it’s his time now,” he added.<\/p>\n
Warwickshire start this season’s Championship on 3 April with a tough home game against Surrey, who won the title in three successive seasons from 2022 to 2024 before being pipped by Nottinghamshire last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-rounder Ed Barnard has been named as Warwickshire’s new club captain after Alex Davies decided to step down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-490932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}